From The Portuguese Of Semedo. - Sonnet. (translations.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCDIt is a fearful night a feeble glare | A |
Streams from the sick moon in the o'erclouded sky | B |
The ridgy billows with a mighty cry | B |
Rush on the foamy beaches wild and bare | A |
No bark the madness of the waves will dare | A |
The sailors sleep the winds are loud and high | B |
Ah peerless Laura for whose love I die | B |
Who gazes on thy smiles while I despair | A |
As thus in bitterness of heart I cried | C |
I turned and saw my Laura kind and bright | D |
A messenger of gladness at my side | C |
To my poor bark she sprang with footstep light | D |
And as we furrowed Tago's heaving tide | C |
I never saw so beautiful a night | D |
William Cullen Bryant
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